LEADER 03356nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910449779703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7468-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801474682 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002050 035 $a(OCoLC)70730549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10001775 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000278598 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278598 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246948 035 $a(PQKB)10350772 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137912 035 $a(DE-B1597)534459 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801474682 035 $a(OCoLC)888466337 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse83315 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137912 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10001775 035 $a(OCoLC)1149458953 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002050 100 $a19991020d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe deserts of Bohemia$b[electronic resource] $eCzech fiction and its social context /$fPeter Steiner 210 $aIthaca, NY $cCornell University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-3717-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Politics or Poetics -- 1 Tropos Kynikos -- 2 Radical Liberalism -- 3 The Past Perfect Hero -- 4 The Poetics of a Political Trial -- 5 Ironies of History -- 6 Cops or Robbers -- Index. 330 $aCzech fiction in the twentieth century has been deeply enmeshed in the nation's political life and often serves as a conduit for its authors' social ideas. Through a series of brilliant and powerful readings of major Czech texts in both literature and history, Peter Steiner challenges the view that literary works can be treated as aesthetically distinct from historical events. Instead, he gives evidence again and again of the inevitable connection between literature and politics. Steiner engages six central works ranging from novels to government documents; all, in his view, purvey ideological fictions that have exerted significant social influence. He begins with Jaroslav Hasek's 1920's novel The Good Soldier Svejk, whose anti-authoritarian protagonist was widely emulated during the Nazi and Communist regimes, and ends with Va?clav Havel's play The Beggar's Opera, through which Steiner explores the social role of Czech writing in the 1970's. He also considers Reportage, by Julius Fuci?k, which announces itself as a documentary of the Communist Party's heroic struggle against the Germans, but is, for Steiner, a fiction arising out of Marxist-Leninist ideology; Karel Capek's Apocryphal Stories; Milan Kundera's novel The Joke; and the 1952 show trial of Rudolf Sla?nsky?, the general secretary of the Communist Party. 606 $aCzech fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aCzech Republic$xCivilization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCzech fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a891.8/6305 700 $aSteiner$b Peter$0450155 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449779703321 996 $aThe deserts of Bohemia$92476006 997 $aUNINA